Midweek Pennant Draw and Venue - 14 Mar 17

OVENS AND MURRAY BOWLS

MIDWEEK ELIMINATION AND QUALIFYING FINALS

14th March 2017

The O&M Pennant Committee has allocated the following venues for the midweek elimination and qualifying finals as set out in Rule 8 of the O&M Regulations. Clubs should make themselves aware of Rule 8.2 regarding allocated venues and Rule 9 regarding player eligibility for finals, which are included below the finals venues chart.

SEC

FINAL

Home Team

Visiting Team

HOST CLUB/ VENUE

O&M REP

1A

QUAL

YMGCR 1

v

Yarrawonga

Mulwala Services

To be advised

ELIMIN

Wodonga 1

v

Benalla 2

Mulwala Services

To be advised

1B

QUAL

Rutherglen

v

YMGCR 2

Corowa Civic

To be advised

ELIMIN

Corowa Services

v

Corowa Civic

Rutherglen

To be advised

3

QUAL

YMGCR

v

Corowa Services

Corowa Civic

To be advised

ELIMIN

Ovens

v

Wangaratta

Corowa Civic

To be advised

4

QUAL

Beechworth

v

Wodonga

Wangaratta

To be advised

ELIMIN

Corowa Civic

v

Benalla

Wangaratta

To be advised

5

QUAL

Kiewa

v

Corryong

Wodonga

To be advised

ELIMIN

Chiltern

v

Wodonga

Wodonga

To be advised

CONDITIONS OF PLAY

Start Time. Games to commence at 9.30am. Roll up at 9.15am. Play 25 ends played straight through. Aggregate score to decide the winner. In the event of a tie, an extra end is played by all rinks to decide the result.

Home Team. The first named team is to act as home team, ensure that team sheets are made out, signed and handed to the Regional Representative who will:

The Side Captain (Manager). To collect $8.00 per player and hand to the Regional Representative who will pay the Host Club.

The Host Club is to:

Arrange umpires.

Provide a Master Scoreboard and an attendant.

Provide light lunch of sandwiches or salad roll after the game.

Rings. Teams are to use Club coloured rings. If competing Clubs have conflicting colours the “visiting team” is to use an alternative colour or no rings.

Raffle. The Host Club can run a raffle after the game.

Final games are not abandoned, if games are postponed due to inclement weather the game must be completed later in the day or if that is not possible, the following day or a date to be advised by the Pennant Committee.

Please refer to O&M Pennant Rules of Competition (Rule 8 and 9) in regard to Finals Conditions of Play and player eligibility. (below)

8.1 All Finals are to commence at 1:00pm for the Weekend Open Pennant or 9:30am for the Midweek Pennant on the day programmed. Afternoon tea is to be taken where programmed by the Regions Pennant Committee.

8.2 Allocated Venues will be made by the Pennant Committee at the end of the last home and away game. The two finalist sides are to agree on the venue allocated. Any objections to the allocated venue must be received by the Ovens and Murray Bowls Region Inc Secretary on the Thursday (Midweek Pennant) and Monday (Weekend Pennant) prior to the relevant Final being played. If agreement cannot be reached by the two competing Clubs, on an alternate venue, the game will be played at the venue allocated by the Pennant Committee.

8.3 The Finals are to be played under the Page System for all Divisions. The conditions for the Finals are as follows:

8.3.5 Semi-Finals and Finals shall be played right out unless it is impossible for one side to win in the number of ends remaining to be completed.

8.3.6 In Semi-Final and finals games, should sides obtain equal number of shots at the completion of the game, an extra end or ends shall be played by all rinks to decide the winners.

8.3.7 During the Finals of the Pennant competition, the club highest on the ladder will be deemed to be the home side.

RULE 9.PLAYER ELIGIBILITY - refer Bowls Victoria Rule 13

C(iii) (iv) (v)

9.1 Prior to the last four rounds of sectional play there shall be no restrictions on the interchange of players between the sides of the Club. For the last four rounds of sectional play, no side shall include more than three players who have played the majority of their games during the season in a higher graded side.

9.2 A side shall not include in any post sectional match, a player who during the current season who has played in four or more matches (whether completed or not) in any higher graded sides, unless the player has also played in four or more games (whether completed or not) in that competition (Midweek Open and Weekend Open) [must play 4 games in the respective Midweek competition and the Weekend competition to be eligible to play in either sets of finals] or in the side concerned and/or any lower graded side or sides.

Where a Club has two sides in either Pennant Division the following qualification will apply to sides in that respective. For 2016-17 this also applies to clubs in Mid-week Open 1A and 1B with two teams in these divisions and in Weekend B2 division.

9.2.1 At the conclusion of round 10 the Regions Pennant

Committee will name 12 players in each side ‘belonging’ to that particular side, and as such, ineligible for interchange between the two sides in the same Division.

9.3 In any post sectional match a side shall not include any player who during the current season has played in less than four Pennant games for the club.

9.4 If a club is not certain of having sufficient members available (under Rule 9.2) it can apply to the Pennant Committee for permission to play, another nominated

member or members and if permission is granted such member or members can play in any position other than Skip.